Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [that] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Was the rehearsal a success ? ’ she asked stiltedly , still plagued by the doubts that had been besetting her ever since leaving Gavin . |
| 2 | ‘ Some of the lads had been feeling it and this gave them the chance to pay some of the bills that had been piling up . |
| 3 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 4 | Which is more than you ever were with me — until , of course , that last day at the office when you took the lid off and let it all boil over — all the things that had been bugging you . ’ |
| 5 | Resisting the temptation to ask for answers to some of the questions that had been plaguing her , Luce shook her head . |
| 6 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |
| 7 | These efforts by the government were given more force through the White Paper Better Schools , which outlined the aims that had been emerging through the previous documents . |
| 8 | that he finally gave way to the tears that had been building up inside him since Michael 's visit . |
| 9 | As the sound was repeated again and again the tears that had been brimming in Lan 's eyes spurted down her cheeks , and beside her Tam listened rigid with horror , waiting for the sound of his brother 's wailing to begin . |
| 10 | The stormclouds that had been threatening to unload for most of the week finally opened their hatches on Saturday afternoon . |
| 11 | Last night , she had taken one of the wolfdogs that had been following her for weeks . |
| 12 | As I waited , Pike started to fall , jumping clear of the stilts that had been holding him up . |
| 13 | The hands that had been playing basketball with Godzilla 's head , stopped moving . |